Alastair Duncan

Alastair Duncan is probably best known as Mimir, the smartest man in the world, in the games God of War and God of War Ragnarok, as well as Celebrimbor, the creator of the rings of power, in Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War and Senator Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a game that is more popular today than when it was released 10 years ago. After working as a nursing auxiliary in the Argyle and Bute Mental Hospital, studying science at Dundee University for a year, and then working in the anatomy department at Glasgow Vet School, Alastair Duncan studied acting at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. In 1983 he made his film debut in Bill Bryden's Ill Fares the Land and his tv debut playing the naive sidekick Det Sgt Neil Livingstone to Mark Mcmanus's world weary title role in the Scottish Television series Taggart. He left the show after the first five seasons and in 1992 he starred opposite Rutger Hauer in the darkly atmospheric British sci-fi cult classic Split Sec